Now THOSE Are Some Celebrities!

To be a “celebrity” means to be well known. One can be well known for representing the best of human possibility, as Obama does for many in America and around the world. Others are “celebrities” for being sad examples of human possibility, Brittany, Paris, and George W have become that. The McCain campaign apparently wants us to forget the difference.

I believe that Obama is just a popular politician not a celebrity. Bill Clinton is a popular politican also and Hillary. All three are know throughout the world but Obama loves himself and himself only and that’s why he made that world tour. He is desperate to get regognition and desperate to win the white house. He read so many books on MLK he wants to make history like him. Why can’t he just be himself instead of copying other people or copying speeches from the book of RFk where he got the words hope and change. For a Harvard graduate what happened to his intelligence.

dl — and you take this Time article author as the end all word? Numerous scientists and economists have commented, and his tire pressure comment is so very ridiculous and out of touch. One scientist calculated that it would take, oh, about 11,000 years for even generous tire pressure changes to make up for the amount of oil that is needed. You do realize that Obama has now flipped on off shore oil, because he realizes how ridiculous he sounds? You will do anything to grasp at straws to prove Obama is always right, don’t you?
LOL!

There goes the 15% energy consumption reduction energy strategy. Phony.

I thought the politics of personal destruction were over. The politics of celebrity were beginning. Not a good change but we were promised change.
Now I watch the pundits like Roland Martin, Kate Snow, Carl Bernstein and others digging their spurs into President Bill Clinton as gleefully and spitefully as they can manage. Why? What is it about the celebrity they enjoy as self-obsessed newsmen that gives them this privilege?
The Clintons serve America well. These press hounds only serve themselves. The press is becoming the ugliest election I can remember and that ugliness is not coming from the candidates. It is coming from the press. THEY are the elephant in the refrigerator and their footprints are all over the peanut butter.
Why?

Obama needs to stop hanging out with movie stars like Seinfeld and Paltrow. They just add to the elitist image he should be working on shaking. At this point celebrity endorcements are negative. And please, when all eyes are on the energy issue, don’t drive away in an SUV limo.

Ron,
Those are some good points.
Let me add some more:
Do we want a leader who crashed at least 3 planes and maybe 5 through his own incompetence?
Do we want a leader who graduated 5th from the bottom of his naval academy class?
Do we want a leader who was nearly impeached out of office through a scandal that cost the American taxpayers billions?
Do we want a leader with an economy so fraught with peril who has admitted that he doesn’t understand it?
So, indeed, Do we want that leader?

“I mean when was the last time John and Cindy mccain even had to take care of their cars?” dl
I MEAN… when was the last time Obama and Michelle had to take care of THEIR cars?
I’ll bet John could still do a better job with a motor than Obma could!
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As for the Democrats, they’re so dis-inclined to be helpful that they made sure when Obama finally flipped and said he might favor off shore drilling… they’d be long gone so they wouldn’t have to act on it… just in case he changed his mind again,

I can’t let Kate’s comment pass. “The not-so-smart Paltrow who prefers not to live in America”? Blythe Danner “a small has-been”? OK, so the columnist, who is not anonymous, writes his piece and then we get endless instant reactions of almost no value, comments which say a lot about the mentality of the ones who write them. The sneering that litters cyberspace makes me cringe. I single out Kate’s comment because I spent a total of 23 years living in England and the Middle East. Most of the time it wasn’t easy and I don’t have lots of material stuff to show for those years, but I feel very grateful that I did strike out on my journey. My life has been enriched by other cultures and perspectives. We, as Americans, risk losing what is best about our country if we arrogantly lock ourselves into a “little America” mentality where we think we are the absolute best simply because we don’t know any better. That kind of delusion is what I would call “not-so-smart”.

dl, after Obama’s claim that inflating our tires would replace ALL of the oil that could be gained by domestic drilling, John McCain said that indeed we all should do our part to conserve oil by keeping our tires properly inflated. But he recognizes that that alone is not the solution Obama claimed and went on to say that conservation is just part of his “Conserve More, Produce More, Invent More” approach to energy independence.

Gwyneth Paltrow is married to Chris Martin, frontman of Coldplay. Seinfeld is indeed married to some lady who I vaguely recall wrote a cookbook.